CME Fees Increasing Again in February

They're literally nickel-and-diming folks.

 

They must be raising fees to pay out for the coming lawsuit:

https://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/...ication-in-lawsuit-against-cme-group-20211207

 

I guess they may justify it for equity contracts by the growth of the notional values per contract. Wonder what happens if the markets crash and values go way down - will they reduce fees?

 

Again?? Goddamn shameless thieves. If you do the math, you're already paying too much for the E-minis and way too damn much for the micros.

 

That's why people say monopoly is always bad .............

 

Boat harbor docking fees went up...some of the CME folks have boats in the harbor.

Simply, they're passing the fees down to the little guy.

Sarcasm but it's true that some of them have boats in the harbor.

wrbtrader

 

I've said many times, CME is a joke. I stand by that.

 

Just buy CME stock and pray they never lose their monopoly

 

i thought about that. i figure that dividend yield would probably offset the increasing cost of trading that they seem to do regularly

 

Most of the fee increases aren't that bad, but....
Non-member Micro FX fees go from $0.16 to $0.24, a 50% increase.